H-D Soldier Stories: Above & Beyond! – Harley-Davidson Military Sales

As Gary Wetzel sits in his modest South Milwaukee home watching a TV special about Vietnam War veterans from Wisconsin, a small wooden box rests inconspicuously on a table nearby, next to a picture of his granddaughter. The contents of the box gives Wetzel reason to pay extra attention: Inside is Wetzel’s Congressional Medal of Honor, awarded for valor, the highest honor a soldier can receive.

The words on the citation he received describe an act of extraordinary heroism. They make you think, “How in the world…could anybody do what he did!?”